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Show MAKE IT A MERRY CHRISTMAS Cause Others to Ee Happy and Feel the Joy of Sacrifice All in the j Front Ranks, Christmas ! Every year it comes and every yeai we love it and wonder why we haven't made the spirit of it last all through the year, writes Margaret Mott Gordon. Gor-don. Perhaps we do not have the time? Eut to what do we give our time? And why is it that at Christntas we all "take time" to do the many little lit-tle thoughtful things that we have been postponing for months and months? J One of the things we seem fo forget is that the more we give to others the j more we have ourselves, and the more we have the capacity for giving. It is a wonderful thought and one that we should carry around with us ail the time. For we always feel so tingling and joyous when we have made a sacrifice sac-rifice or see that we have really made someone else unusually happy. This year for most of us is very different dif-ferent than any we have yet lived, because, be-cause, even though we are not all actually ac-tually on the firing irne, we are here in our hearts and the thought cannot but give us a strange exultant feeling to be in the front ranks, marching with the mnsicl After all, that is just what the spirit of Christmas is. During the Yuletide we are all in the front ranks and triumphantly tri-umphantly moving forward, for we are thinking, not of ourselves, but of others. And that very sense which loves and therefore serves, which un-1 un-1 derstands and therefore sacrifices, is the true spirit of Christmas. It is the real thrill of life. It is the greatest and most far-reaching emotion in the world, and just to know that we are capable of that feeling, even though it should come only once a year, would show that there is the right spirit within with-in ns, and with a little cultivation we might make it last all through the year. |
